January 24, 2012 – RUSSIA – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, warning ethnic tensions could tear Russia apart, said on Monday he would toughen migration rules and keep a tight rein on Russia’s regions to prevent it following the Soviet Union into oblivion. In a newspaper article and an address in southern Russia, Putin used the danger of ethnic discord to call for limits on electoral reforms. “With the collapse of the country (the Soviet Union), we were on the edge — and in some regions over the edge — of civil war,” Putin wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. “With great effort, with great sacrifice we were able to douse these fires. But that doesn’t mean that the problem is gone,” he wrote in the second of a series of articles promoting his leadership goals ahead of a March 4 presidential election. Putin, in power since 2000 and favored to win a six-year presidential term in March, described a Soviet-style vision of a country in which the rights of ethnic minorities would be respected but Russian language and culture would dominate. “The Russian people, the Russian culture is the glue holding together the unique fabric of this civilization,” Putin wrote. Putin is steering a fine line between Orthodox Christian ethnic Russians, some of whom fear labor migration and higher birth rates among Russia’s Muslims, and ethnic tensions which could challenge his vision of a centralized, united, Russia. Thousands of nationalists have protested in Moscow over migration and state subsidies to the mostly Muslim North Caucasus, where an Islamist insurgency rooted in the Chechen wars persists. Comparing nationalism to a disease, Putin took aim at ethnic Russian nationalists, who have been among the 59-year-old prime minister’s most vociferous critics. –Reuters

Nigeria unraveling in violence:Fresh attacks blamed on Islamist separatists in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed nine people and damaged two churches as doctors warned as the death toll from earlier multiple bombs could rise to 250. Explosions rocked two churches in Bauchi state before dawn, destroying one and causing extensive damage to another, residents said. Both churches were empty at the time and there were no reports of casualties. In a separate attack in Bauchi state, which has been the scene of several sectarian attacks by Islamists in recent weeks, 11 people were killed and 12 injured during a raid by unknown gunmen. Bukata Zhyadi, traditional elder of a Christian ethnic group, said the victims had been found at dawn on Sunday in the town of Tafawa Balewa. “We are going around the town checking [for more],” he said. Twelve people were wounded, he said, adding that witnesses blamed the attack on a Muslim ethnic group. –Telegraph

Drug violence in Mexico: Mexican officials said recently almost 13,000 people died in drug violence in the first nine months of 2011, pushing the toll since the start of a five-year military crackdown above 47,000. Drug-related killings in 2011 were up 11% compared with the same period in 2010, the federal attorney general’s office said, noting it was a slower rise than in previous years. Drug-related killings rose 70 percent in 2009-2010, 63% in 2008-9 and 110% in 2007-8, a statement said. The Attorney General’s Office said 12,903 people were killed between January and September 2011, including 1,206 in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez and almost 800 in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. –National Post

Tensions turning Iraq into police state:Violence and political instability have escalated across Iraq since the withdrawal of American forces, as political and sectarian factions have fought for power and influence in a struggle that, within weeks, has threatened to undo the stability that allowed the pullout in the first place. The most recent turbulence came over the weekend when a Shiite governor threatened to blockade an important commercial arterial road from Baghdad to the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north if Kurdish officials did not hand over Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi to government authorities. The Shiite-led national government has accused Mr. Hashimi, a Sunni, of running a sectarian death squad. On Sunday, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the Americans had left behind a “budding police state,” with the country’s Shiite leadership increasingly ruling by force and fear. Insurgent attacks have surged across the country, and as security forces loyal to the Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite, have pressed a campaign against Sunni politicians, arresting several in the past week. –NY Times

Famine in Sudan as bullets fly: Tribal fighting in South Sudan has left 120,000 people in need of emergency food aid, twice the previous estimate, the United Nations said on Friday. The organization was in a race against time to reach people displaced by fighting between the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes in Jonglei state, said U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Lise Grande. The fighting, in which women and children have been targeted, has escalated following tit-for-tat raids to steal cattle. In late December, 6,000 armed Lou Nuer tribesmen attacked the main Murle town of Pibor, killing as many as 2,000 people, according to local authorities. The United Nations, which says the death toll is likely to be much lower, initially said around 60,000 people needed food aid after fleeing into surrounding bush and seeing many of their grain stores destroyed. But Grande told a news conference in the South Sudanese capital Juba that the humanitarian situation in Jonglei – an area the size of Bangladesh – was worsening as a result of continued fighting, including attacks on health facilities. “Only two weeks ago we launched a massive emergency operation to help 60,000 people. As a result of recent attacks, we now estimate that double that number will need help,” Grande said in a statement. –Reuters

26 Responses to Age of Anarchy: From Syria to Mexico, nations facing growing violence and tensions that could tear them apart

Really makes me shake my head ??? What is so wrong with us ? The implants of terrorism seem to be planted and well manipulated all over our world and in every aspect of our lives..too many dumb dumbs yeilding some so called authority, by rogue governments to do whatever they want to us, in the name of some bullshit law(s)!
I am shaken again, to think that a so called NWO are at the true root of the problem with our unrest of each other..and the tearing apart of our fabric to be one..so so sad.. apperently though, it seems to be the case.
Seriously though, I despise the main stream media, and their moguls..human trash in the wiki form..
I love the feeling though that alot of people are becoming aware of the significance in the order of community structure is the only way we will be able to recover from any type of catacyclsimic event.
GOD BLESS

“I am shaken again, to think that a so called NWO are at the true root of the problem with our unrest of each other..and the tearing apart of our fabric to be one..so so sad.. apperently though, it seems to be the case.”

The “true root of the problem with our unrest of each other” is not the NWO – it is ourselves! We must not shove off all the blame for societies ills on to a shadow group that supposedly controls the world. Instead, we need to stand up like real men and women and acknowledge our own responsibility in regard to what’s happening. Confess our sin, repent of it and seek God’s grace and protection as we travel through the increasingly evil world events, whether natural or man-made. Jesus Christ wil return soon, and these things need to happen before He does, according to his own words to his disciples. Don’t be afraid of “them” or the “NWO”, but trust in God and look for HIS working in what is happening around us during these darkening days.

Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Matthew 25:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

So true it is ourselves not some shadow group. There are certain people in control but the evil things that have happened and are continuing to happen are individuals making the choice to do those evil deeds.

America is moving close to the same problem, the culture and law is being replaced by cultures that say “What we did in the OLD country is what we are going to do here; America must adopt our ways”. The only thin thread that was holding this influx of various cultures was money could me made in America. This is failing month after month, reaching a point that real culture wars with guns will be fought to preserve America.
A sad state of affairs but the end of the American empire is not without pain and sorrow.

A planetary civil war where anarchy, violence, and strife is everywhere. This will more than likely be the future of the entire planet if any of the scenarios take place:

a). the global economy fails
b) the world is hit with a major natural disaster or lethal pandemic
c). there is a major war in the Middle East
d). there is a nuclear terrorist event
e). world grows more polarized by ethnic, religious, or cultural differences and urbanization stresses increase

The problem is Earth could be facing all of these threats simultaneously. Take a globe of the world and look at it 10 years ago – now mark off the countries you can no longer visit because of the escalating violence and war. It is alarming.

Very important observations. Thank you for this post.
As Christians, however, we must not yield to fear. The righteous are as bold as a lion! We must not shrink back from such countries because of unrest or violence; instead we should run to the battle. The Lord Jesus said to GO in to all the world , preach the gospel, and make disciples. We’ve a story to tell to the nations and it must be told. Now is the time. The kingdom of God is at hand!
In addition to this mandate, the Lord Jesus Christ is the only answer to the crises facing the nations of this world. It is our responsibility to offer His light and His way to those who are in darkness and suffering. This is not the time to hide. This is the time to let our light so shine before men that they may see and glorify our God!

I hope everyone is ready to bug-in, bug-out, or be destroyed by the anarchy. I really do think that everything in our country is so far gone that an economic reset as well as a little “time out” for politicians to get their act together and actually learn economics may be less painful than us just waiting for everything to magically get better. Too many Americans have started to believe that it’s the government’s job to take care of us, and it’s leading to our destruction. Yet, some how people still have the guts to shove aside people who really do need help so they don’t have to work. I hope the world is ready for a very big reality check.

@Niceguy yes he paid taxes (not at the rate of someone who has less money) but he did not pay taxes on the money he earned from investments at the same rate as ordinary income let’s face it it is all income and should be taxed at the same rate.

Alvin, thanks for all the posts I am daily visitor of this page. I decided to comment on this post because one the nations mentioned here is my home land. I am from Baja California, México. It’s sad to see that every news provider yellow journalizes my country. I agree that drug related crimes are very high in my country but I don’t find a reason why could Mexico be torn apart as the post states. In the midst of a very upset world economy, our economy managed to grow 5.5% the highest in 10 years. Our unemployment rate is lower than 6% lower than many G20 countries. Foreign Policy developed a very interesting article which I invite you to read. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/02/rise_of_the_timbis
The key to lower down these rates and to control drug cartels in Mexico is to cut out their main client; USA, as far as their drug demand keeps growing, no matter how much intelligence work they pledge to give, the cartels will keep killing each other to be the main suppliers.
I live a very tranquil life in México, I feel very safe and have never been exposed to drug related crimes myself.
Grace and Peace.

The article was not meant to single out any country for crime but instead was posted to raise awareness of what’s happening to our planet in its totality. It’s been riddled with violence and the number of places that are no longer safe to visit in the world because of crime concerns has escalated dramatically- from Brazil to Lebanon. If the 50,000 people that have died in drug violence in Mexico or the estimated 20,000 that die every year in the U.S. from handgun violence was the number of people dying from a new pestilence, the world would mobilize every resource available to stop it…but when it’s humans killing humans for whatever reason, the law of the jungle seemingly applies and rationale goes out the window. There are beautiful places in all the countries mentioned in the post; my hope and prayer is that we can preserve them for posterity and overcome our natural proclivites for violence and brutality because we’re about to face an unprecedented assault from nature.

there are too many humans on this planet, destroying it as fast as we can. we are now doing what rats do when when are terribly overcrowded: they start fighting, making gang war, and killing each other. we are way too crowded and too far from nature.

Do you really think that mankind is becoming more violent? Have there been no genocides in history? Was there ever a time, any time in human history, that was war free? Since the beginning and throughout the ages mankind has raped, pillaged, murdered, hung drawn and quartered, beheaded, committed genocides, abused women and children, tortured, water boarded (invented hundreds of years ago), and killed just fun. The Romans did it, Gengis Kahn did it, Pol Pot did it, Napoleon did it, the British did it, the Chinese did it, the Russians did it, the Australians did it, the Americans did it, every nation on earth has done it.

It is what we do best. We are the human animal, and as such we are subject to our emotions and life styles. We are subject to love, happiness, pain, greed, avarice, hate, loathing etc, and we are controlled by the socieities in which we are born and the social rules of those societies.

There will never be a time on earth, when we will all hold hands, and becoming kissing buddies.

All we can do is muddle through as best as we can, looking after our own, and not interfering in the lives of others. Then again that is just a pipe dream.

If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.